1. Offshore Drilling: What Happened to Going Green?
Drill, Baby, Drill As a political election tactic to solicit the support of those who are overwhelmed by high gas prices, and to maintain the exchange of increasingly huge amounts of money between Washington and oil companies, legislatures from both sides of the aisle insist that allowing the expiration of an almost 30-year moratorium on offshore drilling will lend confidence to speculators and reduce the export of wealth to foreign oil producers, encouraging a drop in gas prices and abating our reliance on foreign oil. The well-promulgated fact that the U.S. expends approximately 25% of...
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